This delicious and versatile vegetable is very popular worldwide. Plants grow 2'-3' (60-90 cm.) tall, with 4 or more oval fruits. One of our garden's best meat substitutes. Heirloom variety.
Culture: Start indoors setting plants out in warm soil or sow outdoors in full sun after soil has warmed. Excellent plants for beds, intensive growing, and container growing.
Harvest: Beginning 78 days from date of transplant, long harvest season.
Suggestions: Excellent fried, in casseroles or combined with other vegetables, parmesan cheese.
Nutrition: Fat, sodium and cholesterol free. Good source of vitamin B and A.
- Planting Depth: 1/4" (6 mm.)
- Seed Spacing: 1/2" (13 mm.)
- Spacing Between Rows: 2' (60 cm.)
- Days to Germination: 7-14
- Spacing After Thinning: 18"-24" (46-60 cm.)
- Days to Maturity: 83